Always glad to hear someone embrace her child-free life, though I prefer the succinct and to-the-point explanation by Helen Mirren:

This is terrible, terrible news. I hope that women who work for these companies can find new jobs. Hard to make it as a company if you can't employ anyone.

Short answer is "No." He might be a loving dad, he might be an involved dad, he might be a fun dad, but he CAN'T be a "good" dad. You have to be a good person to be a good dad. Cocky sexist assholes aren't good people.

Hee. Okay, I don't *hate* Jonathan Franzen. What I hate is the way the New York Times transforms itself into his personal PR machine when he has a book out, to the exclusion of the books people are actually reading, so he's sort of a symbol for a whole binary hierarchical....oh, fuck it, I hate that smug motherfucker,…

Bill Murray really is living his best, DGAF life.

God damn if that isn't the only legitimate reason to take engagement photos.

His wikipedia page calls him a "prolific academic" and I wanted to scream. He may be a prolific student, but he is not a prolific academic. Academics are churning out work consistently that adds to a body of scholarship and knowledge. Taking a lot of classes makes you a lifelong learner, not an academic. There is…

Yup, I was really surprised to see him referred to as a Professor. I teach at the college level, I don't have a Phd and haven't put in the work that leads to a professorship so I would never call myself a Professor. A Phd or teaching a random class does not a Professor make, someone needs to tell him that.

Is he really a professor? Or is he just a guy who sometimes guest teaches some classes? Does he have a doctorate, an earned one, not honorary? Of course, I know several MFA's I consider to be professors who don't have doctorates. I know how hard they have worked and how hand-to-mouth they often were before going…

I noticed that too. Instructor does not equal professor (I know he's taught some bullshit film/writing/directing course somewhere—doesn't count). Also, with his writing skills, we should all cast very real doubt on his MFA programs (yes, he enrolled in more than one) as well as his PhD work at Yale. This sort of…

Meme Manager? This is a job?

I'm waiting for the GOP to demand proof that she's actually a woman.

I actually was at this event at BookCon this weekend to hear her speak (there were delicious neon pink fortune cookies! Thanks Amy!) The whole context of the story is kind of missing in this re-telling, but the way she told it, it definitely sounded like Hamm was being deadpan to try to make her laugh. She talks about…

Let's just say 'to each their own' and call it good. I'm happy to have women publicly speaking about this topic from this perspective - it makes me feel like less of a freak.

If more people spoke out this way there wouldn't be such an insane pressure and stigma about having or not having children for women. I see a LOT of teenage girls in my courtroom who would be heartened and encouraged by this type of role model.

Yes! I consider myself to be a woman who has it all. The "all" just doesn't include kids. Never wanted them, never needed them.

Jesus... the monologue on the first video.

Absolutely. It ties into the commercialism that has perverted what "feminism" should be and do into something that sells shit.

Let's be honest here: the elevator incident matters because it gets Gawker Media a lot of page views.